Downtown agency not seeking adult businesses

4:42 AM,
Oct. 13, 2012

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Pornography magnate Larry Flynt, a native Kentuckian, came to Louisville earlier this month to consider opening one of his adult retail stores, Hollywood Hustler, on South Fourth Street.

City officials are trying to develop the 500 and 600 blocks of South Fourth between Broadway and 4th Street Live as a retail, restaurant and entertainment corridor. But an adult-oriented business is not what the city has in mind for the area, said Alan DeLisle, the Louisville Downtown Development Corp. executive director.

"That's not the kind of business we are looking for," said DeLisle, whose agency is ...